[Effects of hemosorption and ultraviolet irradiation of blood on morphological properties of erythrocytes in sepsis in the newborn].

The morphological structure of erythrocytes was studied using electron microscopy in babies with sepsis. It has been shown that in mild forms of the disease the deformed cells consisted mainly of erythrocytes capable of reversible transformation, while in babies with severe forms of sepsis and especially in those who died of sepsis the deformed cells were mostly prehemolytic and destructive erythrocytes, with the nature of intercellular interaction changed by the formation of cytoplasmatic bridges and enhanced aggregation. A therapeutic effect of hemosorption with ultraviolet blood irradiation is based on a decrease in the counts of hemolytic and destructive erythrocyte forms, which leads to a more prompt recovery of structural and functional erythrocyte properties in the postsorption period.